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Untitled, 2005
Encre de chine et huile d'olive sur papier velin
66 x 48 cm
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Untitled, 2005
Encre de chine et huile d'olive sur papier velin
66 x 48 cm
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Untitled , 2016
Abstract Blue
Encre de chine et aquarelle
45 x 58 cm
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Untitled, 2016
Abstract Blue
Encre de chine et aquarelle
56 x 45 cm
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Untitled, 2016
Blue Serie
Encre de chine et aquarelle
45 x 58 cm
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Untitled, 2016
Blue Serie
Encre de chine et aquarelle
45 x 58 cm
Collection Privée -
Untitled, 2016
Blue Serie
Encre de chine et aquarelle
56 x 45 cm
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Postcard 6, 2003
Encre de chine et aquarelle, cartes postales collées sur papier
57 x 23 cm
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Postcard 2, 2003
Encre de chine et aquarelle, cartes postales collées sur papier
57 x 23 cm
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Postcard 1, 2003
Encre de chine et aquarelle, cartes postales collées sur papier
57 x 23 cm
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How old is the ocean, 2019
Indian ink and gouache on Arches paper
57,5 x 76 cm
Collection Privée -
The Wolf looked out, 1995
Idian ink on Arches velum paper
57,5 x 77 cm
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I must walk, 1997
Indian ink on Arches paper
66 x 92 cm
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Water is a garden of fish, 2019
Indian ink on Arches paper
58 x 76 cm
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Love is not what you want, 2016
Indian ink and gouache on paper
24 x 32 cm
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To leave this world, 2006
Indian ink and gouache on paper
22,5 x 32 cm
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Speed boat on lake, 2017
Indian ink on paper
20 x 40,2 cm
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Solo, 2003
Indian ink on paper
15,8 x 48,6 cm
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On what boat do you travel ?, 2019
Indian ink, gouache and fabric on paper
29 x 24 cm
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Terezin Camp 4.6.1942, 2019
Indian ink, gouache and fabric on paper
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The angel's eyes, 2019
Indian ink and fabric on paper
29,5 x 22 cm
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I am no longer a child, 1985
Indian ink on paper
32 x 23,9 cm
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Those whose crowns of thorn, 1985
Indian ink on paper
30,1 x 23,9 cm
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The traveler, 1988
Indian ink on paper
32 x 23,9 cm
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Mind is, 1995 - 2020
Indian ink on paper
56 x 38 cm
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I return the center, 1996
Indian ink on Arches paper
56,5 x 38,5 cm
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While I compose the moon, 1995 - 2020
Indian ink on paper
56 x 76 cm
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Slow heavy and blue, 1980
Indian ink on paper
28 x 24 cm
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There lies a world, 1975
Indian ink on paper
42 x 29,7 cm
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Down, 1988
Indian ink on paper
40 x 32 cm
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Sans titre, 1975
Indian ink on paper
24 x 32 cm
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Poem - John Davis, 1974
Indian ink on paper
24 x 32 cm
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Ego, 1998
Indian ink on paper
49 x 23 cm
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Falling into the universe, 2020
Indian ink on paper
29,7 x 42 cm
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I saw your beautiful eyes, 2020
Indian ink on paper
42 x 29,7 cm
Introduction
During her formation in New York, while dancing for Alwin Nikolais, Carolyn Carlson frequented the American avant-garde of the 1960s, such as the composers and musicians Barre Philips, John Cage and Philip Glass, or the philosopher and lighting designer John Davis, who became her companion. At that time she realized her first ink drawings, made in one breath as part of an initiation to Zen meditation. There she found a key to her work as a dancer, "the joy of making spontaneous gestures without any idea in mind, just the act of doing" (the artist's words) and from then she has never stopped to unite her dance practice with the more confidential ones of calligraphy and writing.
As a source of contemplation, but also of inspiration and poetic creation, spontaneous drawing sometimes mingles with words, quotations and poems, which are the fruit of a longer period of time, composition and reflection. Two temporalities which, by their cohabitation on paper, seem to designate the contrary and yet complementary energies which constitute for Carolyn Carlson the elements of an instinctive control of the perfection of the gesture. Here poetry escapes from language to express itself differently in space, through line (that of the body, sign or letter) and movement (of the hand, mind and heart).
Carolyn Carlson has created more than a hundred pieces, many of which constitute major works in the history of dance: Density 21.5, Blue Lady, Signes (created in collaboration with the painter Olivier Debré), Writings on Water, and Dialogue with Rothko. In 2006, her work was awarded by the first Golden Lion ever given to a choreographer by the Venice Biennale. She is also Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, and Officier de la Légion d’Honneur.
Founder of Atelier de Paris - Carolyn Carlson at the Cartoucherie in 1999, she was, with the Carolyn Carlson Company that she is directing today, an associate artist at the Théâtre National de Chaillot from 2014 to 2016.
In 2011, she donated her archives to France. Kept at the BnF they were exhibited there for the first time to the public in 2013/2014. Since then, her graphic work has been exhibited at La Piscine museum in Roubaix (2017), agnès b. in Paris (2018) and in Arles at the Chapelle du Méjan (2019).
